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Penn State Beaver announced the winners of the 12th annual Penn State Beaver Forensics Tournament held in March. A total of 128 students from Beaver Middle School, Beaver High School, Freedom Middle School, Freedom High School, Hopewell Middle School, Hopewell High School, Quigley Catholic High School and West Allegheny High School competed in six events.

For information about the annual competition, contact John Chapin at jrc11@psu.edu or 724-773-3877.

A DNA-sequencing algorithm co-developed by Stephan Schuster, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, and Ji Qi and Fangqing Zhao, who were Penn State postdoctoral fellows on the research team, has received top honors in a competition for new software developments in next-generation DNA sequencing. The biotechnology company Illumina awarded Schuster and his co-authors the first-place academic-category price, which included a monetary award, for their inGAP (Integrated Next-generation Genome Analysis Pipeline) software. Illumina's iDEA (Data Excellence Award) Challenge is "a program designed to challenge the scientific community to develop new and creative visualization and data-analysis techniques."